What was your favourite topic at school?

Alizerine said:
History depended completely on the teacher. Memorizing wars and dates without any interesting stories was a bore. I liked biology and earth science, art and English. French was fun for the first two years. Then my attention wavered.
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talking of History... our history teacher was nice, she liked her subject.. and as you can imagine we had many thousands of years to learn... she concentrated mainly on the middle ages through through to the Victorians...

I liked it enough but wasn't all that interested apart from the Victorians.. what a rum lot they were..

My geography teacher was a classic Bore. He drones.. was miserable.. archetypal boring teacher with a tweed jacket and knitted tie.. and I learned nothing of what he was teaching, altho' somehow I passed my exams in the subject.. and left school really detesting Geography..

All that changed a couple of decades on when I started to travel and live in many parts of Europe... I learned Geography..and languages in a fraction of the time it took Mr..whatsisname.. ( he's the only teacher whose name I can't remember) who taught us for 3 years.. to have us learn..
 

I liked science classes. Somehow I was a quick study, and my parents stressed getting the homework done. So I did pretty well in my classes. In high school, I decided against studying chemistry because one couldn't help noticing, when walking past the door, the sulphides in the the lab stank (no thanks!). I chose physics ("classical physics" not relativity & quantum stuff), and found it interesting. Another interesting class was taught by a man who normally taught Social Studies (and I think English), but he experimented by introducing us to Plato's philosophy. That was an engrossing discussion course. But after that, I wanted to read Chinese & Indian philosophy.
 

My Latin and German classes were fun, my Latin teacher was convinced we were related. Don't get me started on Suzy and Ruth from German classes, my weird buddy Dan and I were good friends with those girls for several years.

I worked as a lab assistant in the Chem Lab one period each day and got paid for that. Physics was good, I enjoyed that. Mathematics classes were always good and Senior year got pretty close with my Physics and Math teachers. Years later my Physics teacher tried to set me up with his daughter going through my Mom but we kind of fought in school and she was sort of one to hang with the "fast" crowd anyway. Ran into my Senior Math teacher one day when I was away at University. He'd gone back for another degree.

I took an Aviation ground school course as an extension thing through the Junior College in town, passed the FAA written but I didn't have the money to get flying time toward a license. Back then there were no computer programming classes, but I did an independent studies course Senior year and I enjoyed that.

I remember 10th Grade English, but mainly because the teacher was dead sexy to my eye.
 
There was only one class I enjoyed and it was in high school and it was auto shop.

I was always terrible in math and hated it. Somehow, I ended up and excelled in a long career that was mostly math based.
My parents were surprised at the time because they knew how I barely squeaked through math each year.
 
English, which I loved until the poetry units were covered. I’d learn to appreciate poetry, too, but much later on. I always enjoyed History, too, although consideration of ancient history was shortchanged. I liked science until it became increasingly math. Two years of mandated algebra finished me on math… 🙀
 
It seems weird now that if I think about earlier times a lot of detail just floods back. I hope this isn't a sign of my advanced dotage sneaking up on me.
 
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RadishRose posted this pic in another thread. When I saw it, it immediately reminded my of a history teacher I had one year. His posture or body language looked like that, as he paced back & north in front of the class. He also seemed kind of nervous, almost like Woody Allen in WA's 1970s movies... though he had a deeper, more sonorous voice with an emphatic delivery sometimes. It was difficult to focus on what he was wanting to teach us because the guy seemed... well, rather eccentric.☺️
 
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I don’t remember liking much of any of my k12 classes. I did very much like the very abstract graduate level math classes I had later on in life when I actually studied as opposed to planning the next college drinking binge. Abstract Algebra was quite an enjoyable challenge. Also found non-Euclidean geometries to be fascinating.
Abstract algebra - Wikipedia
Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia
 
Mine was English. My father had been an English teacher early in his career so I always grew up reading and learning how to write/spell. My least favorite was Physical Education. I was chubby, uncoordinated and not good at sports. I would usually be the last one picked for any team in Junior High. I was always thrilled when PE was canceled due to bad weather. :ROFLMAO:
 
Talking. I loved that "topic" but I don't know why. I had so much homework with that topic, which was: "I will not talk in Mrs. so and so's class". Each time I had that homework, I had to write it 100 times but I still loved that topic.
 

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